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Applications of computational fluid dynamics in irrigation engineering

open access: goldRevista Ciência Agronômica, 2021
Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) techniques have become an important tool for investigating and predicting flow behavior in many industrial and engineering processes.
Antonio Pires de Camargo   +8 more
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Value engineering for canal tail irrigation water problem

open access: goldAin Shams Engineering Journal, 2017
Shortage of irrigation water is a challenge frequently occurs at Canal Tail-end (CT). This paper uses Value Engineering (VE) methodology to find solutions of this problem. VE methodology includes collecting information about the water shortage at CT, analyze functions of canals, develop creative ideas, assess creative ideas based on evaluation criteria,
Walaa Y. El-Nashar, Ahmed Elyamany
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Challenges and Opportunities for Education in Irrigation Engineering

open access: bronzeTransactions of the ASABE, 2020
Declining enrollments in a declining number of university degree programs in irrigation engineering are generating concern about the future of irrigation engineering expertise.Technical degree and certificate programs offer options for professionals in irrigation careers, especially those in landscape irrigation careers requiring licensure.Extension ...
Dana Porter   +4 more
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ANCIENT IRRIGATION STRUCTURES AND ENGINEERING ADVANCES [PDF]

open access: green, 2022
In this article you will learn that the attitude to water has been formed historically and geographically since the beginning of human cultivation, during this period of evolution, people have made a variety of interesting and wonderful inventions. It also provides information on the first dams in Central Asia, cisterns that hold water in the deserts ...
Axmedov Murodjon Inomjon o`g`li
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Engineering change? The idea of ‘the scheme’ in African irrigation [PDF]

open access: yesWorld Development, 2018
Despite a growing recognition of the significance of farmer-led irrigation, externally engineered and induced schemes remain a popular model for irrigation development in sub-Saharan Africa. These have had a mixed record, and many have been widely critiqued.
E. Harrison
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Simulation of Groundwater Mounding Due to Irrigation Practice: Case of Wastewater Reuse Engineering Design [PDF]

open access: gold, 2017
Mounding often occurs beneath engineering structures designed to infiltrate reuse water. AQTESOLV software and a spreadsheet solution for Hantush, together with soil moisture water balance (SWAGMAN farm model), were used for quantitatively predicting the
Yohannes Yihdego
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SYSTEMS ENGINEERING FOR IRRIGATION SYSTEMS: SUCCESSES AND CHALLENGES [PDF]

open access: greenAnnual Reviews in Control, 2005
In Australia, gravity fed irrigation systems are critical infrastructure essential to agricultural production and export. By supplementing these large scale civil engineering systems with an appropriate information infrastructure, sensors, actuators and a communication network it is feasible to use systems engineering ideas to improve the exploitation ...
Iven Mareels   +5 more
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Value Engineering Approach for Construction Materials Selection of Irrigation Drainage

open access: gold, 2018
In this globalization era, many alternative choices of construction materials. The limited funds available make engineers have to think creatively to choose materials used in order to obtain the cost as efficiently as possible.
Made Sudiarsa
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An Assemblage of Thai Water Engineering: The Royal Irrigation Department’s Museum for Heavy Engineering as a Parliament of Things

open access: diamond, 2017
In Thailand, where water and land intertwine to shape the livelihood and identity of people, engineering bureaucracy and mechanical technology have both played significant roles in producing national ideology.
Jakkrit Sangkhamanee
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